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Good idea! A pair of 25kg plates will do. But only one plate, stacking could lead to accidents and I am one clumsy bastard!

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Originally Posted by markievicz

nice work and a PR is always good.

i need to research the rack pull myself for future use

Thanks Mate.
Only started doing them. Tried them once before eons ago.

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Originally Posted by JTurner

Good going Kuyt. Strong baseline PR.

Cheers J.
I do feel that there is more there than 170kg (since this is only 5kg above my best full DL) but this is a good place to start.

Tuesday 21 February
Bench
bar warm up
60x5
75x3
85x2
100x1
107.5x1 - Shocked by the ease with which I pressed this. Next heavy bench is 2 weeks from now, hope it is as comfortable then. If it is, I will go for 110kg afterwards to see if it is a viable baseline.

92.5 - 5 x trebles
No difficulty here whatsoever

Box Squat
60x5
80x5
90x5
100x5
Hmmmm... The lowest the bench goes still leaves me 4 or so inches above parallel. I pause at the bottom before doing the rep as powerfully as possible.
Is it worth continuing with this as depth is not being hit or should I use Anderson squats instead?
To be honest, I may use Andersons on squat day 3 anyway.

BTNP
45x5x 3 sets
Much better than last week

Abs
Leg raise on bench
6,8,8,8

Day off tomorrow.
I will actually be away from the gym from Saturday's session until Thursday. I assume this will not affect me in the slightest and may actually help me in recovery terms?